Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.

The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience.

I want to get under the surface. When I work with a leaf, rock, stick, it is not just that material in itself, it is an opening into the processes of life within and around it. When I leave it, these processes continue.

The process of growth is obviously critical to my understanding of the land and myself. So the process is far more unpredictable with far more compromises with the day, the weather, the material.

I take the opportunity each day offers.

Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things; otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge difference between an idea and its realization. I've had what I thought were great ideas that just didn't work.

Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.